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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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The Power of Brevity in War Poetry
- Source: English Journal, Volume 86, Issue 5, Sep 1997, p. 72 - 75
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- 01 Sep 1997
Abstract
Argues that the poetry of war is often compressed and powerful and that students of writing and literature can learn from these poets that restraint creates resonance. Discusses war poems with emphatic conclusions; war poems that are short and direct; and teaching the dynamics of brevity through a variety of activities using war poems and war quotations.
© 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English